tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60900731267582296162024-03-18T08:52:18.267-07:00Romance In FlightA place where Readers and Writers can share their thoughts.Jeanne Guzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903215892523274978noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090073126758229616.post-19577123111087890822014-08-18T04:21:00.000-07:002014-08-18T04:21:31.463-07:00Free Book Vs Gift Card—Inquiring Minds Want To Know<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So many authors—myself
included—give away a free book (their choice) as an incentive to leave a
comment on their blog or to leave a review on the many e-book sites. As a
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to know. Would you rather have a print book that you can hold in your hand, or
would you prefer a gift card (voucher) that you can go download something of
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to leave your opinion, I’m giving one lucky winner a choice between a signed
copy of a book from my collection—or a gift code to download a book of your choosing.</span></div>
Jeanne Guzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903215892523274978noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090073126758229616.post-89097795276740507732014-08-11T04:31:00.000-07:002014-08-11T04:31:41.209-07:00The Readers Voice—Inquiring Minds Want To Know<br />
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so many books out in the world, it’s the readers voice I’m most interested in.
I can get advice from other authors any time, but in the end, what I really crave
is the feedback from a reader. What do you do to get your voice out there?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Seriously—inquiring
minds want to know. Do you post on an authors blog, web page, Facebook page? Do
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</span></span><br />Jeanne Guzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903215892523274978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090073126758229616.post-45493218751829217132014-08-04T06:04:00.000-07:002014-08-04T14:43:46.235-07:00The Perfect Character—Inquiring Minds Want To Know<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">When
reading a book with a main character who has a dark past, and the potential for
a dark future, are you—as the reader—looking for a redeeming quality, or should
the darkness be allowed to manifest?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Seriously,
Inquiring minds want to know. My WIP (work in progress) has such a character
and I keep thinking that no matter how hard I try to make him a better man, I
just can’t. All I can see is his evil side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jeanne Guzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903215892523274978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090073126758229616.post-53808364555918138972014-07-28T05:15:00.001-07:002014-07-28T05:15:45.458-07:00What’s In A Name? Inquiring Minds Want To Know!<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">As a writer, the first thing I do is come up with a title for my book. Sometimes I change it, sometimes it’s changed for me, but more times than not, it stays as is.</span></span></span><br />
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Jeanne Guzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903215892523274978noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090073126758229616.post-36643852662654825252014-04-09T06:41:00.000-07:002014-04-09T06:41:29.401-07:00Where Have All The Reviewers Gone? Inquiring Minds Want To Know!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jeanne Guzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903215892523274978noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090073126758229616.post-2994546026421648782014-04-03T06:59:00.001-07:002014-04-03T06:59:26.876-07:00Romance In Flight: What Makes You Attend A Book Signing? Inquiring minds want to know.<a href="http://romanceinflight.blogspot.com/2014/04/what-makes-you-attend-book-signing.html#links">Romance In Flight: What Makes You Attend A Book Signing? Inquiring minds want to know.</a>Jeanne Guzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903215892523274978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090073126758229616.post-22705961529208291522014-04-02T10:50:00.000-07:002014-04-02T10:50:24.335-07:00What Makes You Attend A Book Signing? Inquiring minds want to know.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So, you read about it on FB, or see it a few hundred times
where the bird tweets non-stop, but what about an announcement makes you jump
into your car and travel to the book store or to a near-by writers conference
to have a book signed by an author you’ve never heard of before?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Inquiring minds want to know. Seriously. I was recently at a
writers conference that advertised their book-signing and no one showed up but
the authors signing books. I even went as far as walking the streets and
telling perfect strangers to stop by, but NO ONE<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>showed up. Is it me? Am I doing something
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As an added incentive for your advice, everyone who leaves a
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Troubled Waters, currently a finalist in The Carolyn Readers Choice Awards.</span><br />
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Jeanne Guzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903215892523274978noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090073126758229616.post-62384984686728615692013-08-12T06:03:00.000-07:002013-08-12T06:03:48.287-07:00Monday Madness-Helping Others<br />
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was just sitting here thinking, what can I do to help myself to be a better writer,
and you know what? I figured it out. By helping someone else. Seriously. There’s
this boy I know, he just turned thirteen, and he wants to be a writer. So I’m
helping him, and by helping him, I’m helping myself. Seeing the newness of a budding
writers words brings to mind where my writing is and where I can improve.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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here’s my question, or should I say challenge, for the week. Are you helping
someone be all they can be? If so, how are you helping? If not, find someone
who is asking for help and take them under your wing and watch those karma
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Jeanne Guzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903215892523274978noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090073126758229616.post-56435981105235303502013-08-05T07:18:00.000-07:002013-08-05T07:18:20.308-07:00Monday Madness—A Must Read with C. A. Szarek
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What Can I tell you about C.A. Szarek? So many things but I
don’t think she would want me to mention them here. So Why am I blogging about
her today? Because she’s an amazing author and I just had to brag about her new
book, Collision Force!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Also, Because I want this to be all about C.A., and the
first in her Crossing Forces series, I’m giving you the basics and letting you
see what I already know. This is a MUST READ!</span></div>
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Welcome to Antioch, population fifty thousand.<br />
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With a police department full of detectives and officers who are good at what
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They work together and fight together. Relationships will be forged and changed
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<b>If you loved The Heist: A Novel by Janet Evanovich and Fatal Error by
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<i>Bad boy FBI agent and feisty widowed police detective collide pursuing a
human trafficker in small town Texas on their way to true love.</i><br />
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Bad boy, married to his job FBI agent Cole Lucas always gets his man. So when
the unthinkable happens and one gets away, Cole grits his teeth and hunts human
trafficker Carlo Maldonado all the way to Antioch, Texas, where he collides
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Cole doesn’t do small towns and doesn’t get involved with women he works with,
but Andi tempts him in ways he doesn’t want to acknowledge.<br />
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Two murders, her partner shot and leading the investigation on her own, the
last thing Andi needs is a cocky FBI agent who sees her as no more than a
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Widow and single mother Andi is used to being on her own. When Cole gets stuck
without a place to stay, crashing on her couch puts them in dangerous
territory.<br />
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Attraction and passion bring Andi to a place she’d left behind when her husband
died. Her three-year-old son quickly wiggles his way into Cole’s heart, and he
starts contemplating things—family, love—that he’d never planned for himself.<br />
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Can being forced to work together make them stronger or will their differences
jeopardize their case and their hearts?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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C.A. is originally from Ohio, but got to Texas as soon as she could. She is
married and has a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice.<br />
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She works with kids when she’s not writing.<br />
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She’s always wanted to be a writer and is overjoyed to share her stories with
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Jeanne Guzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903215892523274978noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090073126758229616.post-92026728163536426202013-05-13T07:43:00.001-07:002013-05-13T07:43:42.000-07:00Monday Madness—Now What?
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m sitting here, wondering what I should write about, and
the only thing that comes to mind is—food. I’m hungry, but what I want—bacon,
eggs, hash browns, ect.—isn’t on my list of what I can eat. You see, I’ve put
myself on a diet—again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">SOOOOO, here’s my madness. As a writer, I sit on my butt for
hours at a time, shoving whatever is easiest to make for a meal into my mouth.
I need advice. I need easy, quick meals that travel well and won’t give me that
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Jeanne Guzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903215892523274978noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090073126758229616.post-59125585469662149502013-05-06T06:54:00.001-07:002013-05-06T06:54:01.825-07:00Monday Madness—Taking Care of You!
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I don’t know what it’s like where you live, but this is some
crazy weather we’re having here in Texas. Freezing one day, pool worthy weather
the next, then it’s back to freezing. What does this have to do with writing?
Where do I start?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As I move forward in my life as a published author, and no
matter what the day may bring, there’s one constant. If I’m not healthy, I can’t
function. This is true in any profession. So forgive me if I climb up on my
soapbox and preach the word according to Jeanne.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">If you’ve been reading my posts, you’ll know I’ve had a lot
going on in my life lately; most important is the birth of my 10<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>
grandbaby, Isabelle. What you may not know is that she’s living in my house so
I get to see her every day. Here’s where my health comes into issue. I wasn’t
current on all my shots. So, like a good Mimi (You should already know I’m too
young to be called grandma) I went and got a booster. If you haven’t guessed,
it made me sick. I’ve gone 4 days without holding my little Peanut and I’m in withdrawal.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Call it boredom from being in bed most of the weekend, but I
had a lot of time to think about my body and what I’ve been doing to it throughout
my 38 years. (again, if you know me, you know that I’ve been 38 for years now)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So, I’ve challenged myself, and I’m challenging you as well,
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me together for going on 7 years and I can’t thank him enough. Whatever your
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of what the test results say. It’s better to know in advance what ails you and
what you need to do to correct it. Eat right. Snack healthy. Exercise
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Jeanne Guzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903215892523274978noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090073126758229616.post-86163393198706023762013-04-29T06:21:00.002-07:002013-04-29T06:21:52.381-07:00Monday Madness—Creating Your Space—part one
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for the imaginary people that come to you in dreams or through the pages of a
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Well, I have that place, or at least I thought I did until I
took everyone’s advice and just sat down to write. You see, I had too many
distractions in MY SPACE. My cat, the household bills sitting on my desk, the
clutter tossed into my office when someone didn’t know where to put it. Just
look at these before pictures and you’ll understand what I mean when I say
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now, I’ve been listening to Jeanne Adams workshop “Creating
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But stay tuned, I’ll be bringing you along as I transform MY SPACE into a place where my imagination
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Did you even notice I wasn’t here last week? Well, let me
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I said 10<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>) grandbaby was born. Isabelle Elena Montoya graced my
world and I can’t seem to get enough of her. She’s beautiful, but don’t take my
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I spent the evening with her and when mommy and daddy had
enough of visitors, I took my granddaughter Blakelynn home and tucked her into
bed. The next day was filled with dropping Blake off at school, work, back to
the hospital to hold my adorable peanut, then my husband and I took off for a
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">T</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">hat’s right, we jumped into our home away from home and
headed to the Texas Motor Speedway. Dale Jr. and Brian Vickers, you are both
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sunday brought me home as well as my beautiful daughter and
my precious Peanut and my week has been filled with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">trying</i> to take care of them both, my house, work, my husband, the
dogs, and get a little writing done. I’ve gotten to everything but the writing.
I can’t seem to get back into the mood.</span></div>
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We picked up our 43 foot American Eagle Motor Coach and headed to Loyd Park in Grand Prairie Texas. I know some of you are saying, that’s not much of a weekend getaway, or, that’s not camping.
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Camping is tents, sleeping bags, and peeing behind a tree. I DON'T THINK SO! let me tell you—my kind of camping includes running water, a king sized bed, shower, two bathrooms, dishwasher, microwave, refrigerator/freezer, and 3 TV’s (one outside) Trust me, there’s no better way to relax than in your own home-away-from-home.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">What was I saying? Oh, that’s right. I was talking about getting sidetracked. I went into my closet this weekend to organize it, thinking it’s time to put my winter clothes to the back and while I was in there, I thought, Hey, I’m going to have room in here for my file boxes that are in my office, so I went into my office to get my boxes and thought, man, my office is a mess. I really need to clean this up, make room for me to work without all the clutter, so I started cleaning my office and came across a coffee mug (I collect them) and thought, I need to get the cabinets in my kitchen cleaned out so I can fit this coffee cup in there, so I went into the kitchen to start removing the clutter there and saw my iPad sitting on the counter and remembered that I had to check one of my games before time had run out. Seeing the cup in my hand, I made myself a cup of tea and sat down to play my game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">By the way, the winner for the T-shirt is Dawn Colclasure! </span>Jeanne Guzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903215892523274978noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090073126758229616.post-56689354267057196892013-03-18T09:19:00.000-07:002013-03-18T09:19:07.351-07:00Monday Madness-Man My Feet Hurt!WOW, what a weekend. I had a book signing at Once Upon A Time in Cedar Hill, (Thank you Danielle and Gail Wedgeworth for hosting me) and thinking I needed to look cute for the signing, I got all dressed up, including these adorable fake fur lined boots that I just love. My Awsome Brother-in-law stopped by and brought me something to drink (Thanks Gene) My good friends from Ralphs Design and Deli, Andi Reis and Renee Groskreutz made sure I was well fed. (We need to do that again soon) and I shared the spotlight with a great group of authors. (Shout out to Sandy Lawrence, Joyce Faulkner, Frank <br />
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What bonehead idea have you had that you regret? And remember, we're making this one fun.Jeanne Guzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903215892523274978noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090073126758229616.post-77810537821586880132013-03-10T08:51:00.000-07:002013-03-10T08:51:09.907-07:00Monday Madness-A day Early--AKA Happy Birthday Kelly and Serenity!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">How did this happen? I'm only 38!</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">That's my story and I'm sticking to it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This just makes you wonder, what else has slipped by throughout the years? Can I get a there--there from anyone?</span></div>
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Jeanne Guzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903215892523274978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090073126758229616.post-14101363824125119662013-03-04T08:54:00.001-08:002013-03-04T08:54:15.966-08:00Monday's Mess.<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Thank you, Minnie, for being a guest here at Romance In Flight, and congratulations on your new release.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I try to introduce my guest bloggers as everyday people with incredible imaginations, giving my readers a hint into the lives and minds of those who have the patience to sit down and write. There aren’t many questions I can come up with to point out how “normal” you are, because, let’s face it, “normal is overrated and you are far from “normal.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Going through your website and your blog, the following statements and questions dominated my brain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">First off, in your bio you says, and I quote, “<span style="color: #202020;">I'm probably the original nerd!” I had to laugh, because you just don’t seem like a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nerd</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>to me<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>or maybe I’m one as well and I’m in denial. So, for me, and all my readers out there, what makes you the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">original nerd</i></b> and how do we sign up?</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Second, in your blog you have an article about how you came up with the idea for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Divergent Lives </i></b>and that original quote jumped from the page and slapped me in the face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">That’s a powerful memory to have, and that thought had me wondering just how much real life events and memories influence your writing.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Finally, I hear you’re having a Birthday party for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Adina</i></b>, the main character in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Divergent Lives</i></b>. How did you come up with that idea, and can I steal it from you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You speak of being in denial of nerdiness and that, my friend, made me laugh! The truth of the matter is that nerds rule, right? Anybody remember a little nerdy guy named Steve Jobs?? Enough said!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But seriously, I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">am</i> a nerd. There’s no denying it. The truth of the matter is that I’m happiest when I’m immersed in the written word. I’m good around people and I am happy during exchanges with other human beings, but words excite me. Words supply me with information and I crave information. I also love taking things apart and putting them back together even if I end up with extra pieces. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Most people enjoy the outdoors and are active on beaches, trails and the like. I enjoy trail tours and walking along the shore. I enjoy people watching – seeing how people interact with one another. In the past, I would do those things and then go through my day in bed right before I go to sleep and I always ask “Why?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And I would dream up reasons for strangers’ actions. Or, I’d be riding along a road and see an interesting rock formation and wonder, “How did that happen?” After my parents retired, they moved back to Puerto Rico. Whenever I visited, we would take these long drives around the island. We’d ride along the coast or mountainside and I would pester my Dad for information about the island’s history. There is a tree in Puerto Rico he called “El Flamboyan” that has these really bright orange-red flowers. He would always say that you can only find that tree in Puerto Rico and I’d respond by asking how it got there and he always said he didn’t know. I would ask that question every single time and always got the same answer. Sometimes the joy is in the asking, in the journey. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I must have been about seven or eight. My older brother, his then-live-in girlfriend – I’ll call her Eve – and my mom were in the living room talking. I loved that woman! I wanted to sit in her lap. I’m telling you, I <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">loved </b>her!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I should have been asleep but I was eavesdropping. Eve asked my mother about something that my brother had told her. She wanted to know if it was true and my mother uttered the words, in all her drama: <span style="color: black;">“The baby died in utero; choked by its umbilical cord when its twin, in a hurry to be born, climbed over it and killed it.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">For 45 years, that sentence echoed in my head. I knew who they were talking about; I knew who the surviving twin was. I’m won’t say who it is, but I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">know</i> who it was. I can’t say what prompted me to incorporate that memory into this story, but I did and once I decided to do that, my inner, dark curiosities got the better of me. I also knew that I would be pushing the envelope with this story and I had to be careful telling it. This story is DARK!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">When I sat down to write <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Divergent Lives</i>, I had in my head a much different story. The story always had a serial killer in it. The story was always going to be about the female child of immigrant parents growing up during the sexual revolution of the 60s and 70s, and she was always going to die. The devil was in the details. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Blog: </span><a href="https://minnielahongrais.com/Divergent_Lives.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">https://minnielahongrais.com/Divergent_Lives.html</span></a></div>
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Jeanne Guzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903215892523274978noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090073126758229616.post-89867171212936766652012-10-18T10:30:00.000-07:002012-10-18T10:30:35.066-07:00A Time of Demons with Kathryn Meyer Griffith<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt -9pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 31.5pt;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 20pt;">Why I Wrote<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;">A Time of Demons<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">(First book of the Before The End series)</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt;">By Kathryn Meyer Griffith<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Around 2003 or so, as many times before in my roller coaster thirty-nine year long writing career, I had about given up. Again. I had eleven published novels (mostly romantic horror and horror) and six short stories to my name published between 1984 and 2003 with Leisure, Zebra, and Avalon Books. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">In 2003 I’d had a dark murder mystery called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Scraps of Paper</b> from Avalon Books come out, had finished the second <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">All Things Slip Away</b> in the series for them. I was proud of the mysteries and the books themselves. The two had fairly decent, but mundane covers, and were hardcovers…my first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believed the novels were my best so far. Contemporary and simple, but people loved the characters and the quirky town they lived in I’d tongue-in-cheek called Spooky. The price was steep, I thought though, at $26 dollars each. But I’d already seen the writing on the wall. I’d gotten a $1,000 advance for each but there was this sneaky little clause in their contracts I’d learned that said I wouldn’t see a dime more of royalties until 3,500 books were sold. That alone would probably keep me from seeing any more money – unless the books were run away hits and more would be printed, or other rights would be sold. That rarely happened I’d been told by other authors for they only printed about 1,750 units at a time and that meant it would have to go into a third printing to gain me anything else. And Avalon didn’t usually go after outside subsidiary rights of any kind. Of course, over the years, though both books have had great reviews, A’s really, neither book has gone into a third printing. Oh, well. As warned, I haven’t seen another penny though the novels still seem to be on sale everywhere. Everyone loves them and wants a third. No way. I’ll wait until my long ten year contracts are up before I write another Spooky town mystery and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> for Avalon Books. You live and learn. It seems like over my career I’ve had a lot of such lessons to learn. Ha.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Anyways, I’d missed my horror genre so much and had been thinking for a while about this new book of mine. Oh, okay, yes, I said I was ready to throw the towel in…but stupid me, I never do. When will I learn? It all started with a tiny seed. Two characters. Siblings. These characters, a loving brother and sister, Cassandra and Johnny Graystone, would be nightclub playing musicians who’d lost their whole family (five brothers and sisters and a mother and father) twenty years before and in the present would be living with and taking care of their elderly aunt and uncle. The aunt would have <span style="letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Alzheimer’s</span> and the uncle, age catching up with him, would be frail, as well. They’d be Catholic. As I’d been raised. The uncle would believe the end days had come. Cassandra would be happy with her life singing out with her brother and living with her sick aunt and uncle. Until…she’d begin to know when people were going to die and she’d begin seeing these hideous creatures– demons–hiding behind some of her human audiences’ faces; bad things would start to happen around her, and she’d think either she was going insane or something terrible was happening to the world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Turns out her uncle was right. The end days had come. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw demons and angels swirling around her that only, at first, she would see. Then I saw her with a glowing sword that she’d use in battles with other human soldiers of her kind she’d meet along the way fighting a growing horde of demons. The apocalypse not far behind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Ah, it would be an apocalyptic novel. That’s it. But one with heart; characters you could root for and love, more a layman’s view of the biblical end-of-days, and not near as much preaching as The Left Behind series which I’d read years before and liked. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Since I’ve always wanted to write an end-of-days novel –I’d loved Stephen King’s THE STAND so much– the story had taken firm root and wouldn’t leave me alone until I started writing it. I had to. It would be my masterpiece! The book called to me that strongly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The woman eventually discovers she is one of many who will have powers to see and fight demons, with the help of angels, as the end days draw near. She must seek out others like herself and convince them to join the fight. She must begin to battle the powerful evil entities she alone is aware of, as well. In the process I send her, her brother, aunt and uncle, and their friends, on a rousing but dangerous quest across the country in a RV…after tornadoes and demons destroy their homes. The world is falling apart around them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Catastrophic earthquakes, tornados and hurricanes are everywhere. A rise in terrible human crimes…most caused by demons or demonic influences. But I tried to make it a story of family and human love as well as a survival story in the face of overwhelming odds as the world spins to its end. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Many agents, editors and publishers turned it down. Too religious. Not religious enough. Not enough this, not enough that. .. I wasn’t a big enough writer. How dare I write something on such a huge religious scale. Oh, no, you have angels in it? Oh, no, you have demons in it! Whatever. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But I believed so much in the book I didn’t give up. I kept sending it out.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">In 2010 I finally sold it to Kim Richards at Damnation Books, her brand new publishing company (and now she also owns Eternal Press). She read and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">loved</i> it. She <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">got</i> it. By then I’d also finished another horror novel, more a romantic horror tale about a witchy vampiress resurrected from her Civil War era tomb and now haunting her old home, an atmospheric lovely<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bed and breakfast run in the present by a loving husband and wife. The wife has to fight to save her husband’s life when the vampiress believes he’s her reincarnated soldier/lover from the Civil War days and tries to take him back for her own. A real eternal love story. A dangerous love triangle. Of course dead drained corpses show up all over the place. I called that book <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Woman in Crimson</b>. Kim loved and contracted both of them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">An editor, Lisa Jackson, helped me polish up <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A Time of Demons</b> until it shone and Annie Melton created a striking, scary, cover in vivid scarlets with the two main characters at their microphones and a demon-hiding-behind-its-human faced customer at a nearby table. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">So that’s how the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">BEFORE THE END:</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A Time of Demons</b> was given life. Hopefully, in the next few years I’ll write the second novel in the series…when I get all my old Leisure and Zebra paperback books (going back to 1984) all rewritten and out again between June 2010 and June 2012. Kim offered to reissue all ten of them, revised and with astonishingly striking new covers, and I couldn’t say no. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s been a heck of a lot of work, but a labor of love. What writer wouldn’t want a second chance to make an old book a better one and have it rereleased all over again? Not me, for sure. Grin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">And <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A time of Demons</b>? Since its release last May it’s gotten fantastic reviews (see there all you naysayers!) and has even won the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">She Never Slept’s</i></b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2010 Nightmare Award</b>, as one of the three best romantic horror books they’d read in all of 2010. Yeah! Now if more people would give it a try, a read, I’m hopeful they’d like it, as well. It’s far more than a simple horror or religious parable…it’s a family and earthly human saga. All I can do is pray, hope…and promote, promote, promote! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">I’ll never give up. How can I? </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It’s my masterpiece and I hope to write its sequel someday. </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">As my mom used to say, winners never quit and quitters never win. And me, I’m not a quitter. Or I try not to be. Sometimes the crazy book/publishing world can drive me plumb nuts. But I always get over it. Grin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">So thank you all for letting me ramble on and on…warmly, author Kathryn Meyer Griffith <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">P.S. Below is the blurb and an excerpt of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A Time of Demons</b>. Hope you like them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">A Time of Demons </span></u></b><u><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Blurb<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">:<o:p></o:p></b></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">Since Cassandra Graystone was a child and her family perished in a fire she <i>knows</i> and <i>sees</i> things other people don’t…when someone will die or that a demon lurks beneath a human skin. She sees phantoms. Yet she craves a simple life singing out with her musician brother, Johnny, and caring for her elderly aunt and uncle; to be with her friends, Sarah, a psychic, and Walter, a clown in a carnival circuit. But when Sarah sees apocalyptic events in her tarot cards and demons are everywhere, Cassandra fears she’s going insane or something terrifying is happening in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">Rayner, an ancient blood demon, lodges next door. He becomes obsessed with her. Never having felt pity or affection for a human before he believes he loves her, would die to protect her. <i>The demon realm gathers for the final confrontation between us, </i>Rayner warns. <i>The apocalypse comes. You and your friends must prepare.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">Cassandra flees that knowledge until an angelic being, Manasseh, appears. <i>Your powers will grow. You must fight for humanity’s survival after the first wave is taken. Seek out others like you. Persuade them to join the battle. Only these can see and challenge the demons until the end when all eyes see them.</i> </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">She doesn’t want her life to change; doesn’t want to be a nomad who battles <i>demons</i>. Doesn’t want to be anyone’s protector.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until a tornado flattens Sarah’s house. Johnny’s apartment. There are monsters maiming and killing everywhere. Demons persecute her and those she loves, burn down her home and force her family and friends onto the road, as everywhere cataclysmic weather and signs of the end days make things hellish for humans. Cassandra and her friends can no longer deny their destinies. They must fight…or see the remnants of humanity engulfed in flames.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">More than usual tonight. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">They were one of the reasons Manasseh didn’t like going into buildings where there were crowds. The ratio of demon to mortal was shifting quickly. There were demons everywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">Manasseh detected and avoided them and they couldn’t see him. For now. There’d come a time when the blinders would be lifted from everyone’s eyes, including theirs, and he’d have to kill them. They’d have to try to kill him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">His foot tapped softly at first and then faster. His body tensed. He couldn’t wait for the day when he could raise his sword and strike all the fiends down once and for all. It’d been coming for so long and he was tired of waiting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">There were demons, disguised as humans, drinking at a table beside the bandstand. “When’s the damn music going to start?” one griped. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">“Yeah, when are we going to get some entertainment in this dump?” His friend threw the remaining contents of his drink at the waitress as she scooted past, barely missing her. He stuck his booted foot out and tripped a man returning from the restroom. The guy sprawled on the floor, stunned surprise on his face. But when he looked up at who’d waylaid him, he just lowered his eyes and stumbled off to hide in a corner. Demon mind control. The weaker the human mind, the stronger the control.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">Dressed in T-shirts, ball caps, and blue jeans the demons appeared to be ordinary mortals of different ages and races. Manasseh never understood why, but most of them wore beards and never robed in bright colors. They especially hated yellow and sky blue. Most were wearing dark glasses. That he understood. In certain lights, their eyes, empty as their souls or, when angry, burning like crimson embers, betrayed them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">Manasseh could hardly bear to be in the same room. Demons had a stench of burnt blood and ash around them and their minds were as dark as the place they’d come from. They mingled among men and committed the crimes that made humans cry: arson, wife beating, torture, and murders. Manasseh scowled. If there was a heinous crime being committed somewhere, there was most likely a demon perpetrating it or somehow behind it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">They were making him angry. He had to remind himself why he was there and that his first responsibility was guarding Cassandra. It was difficult because all he wanted to do was to exterminate them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">Manasseh didn’t like the looks of any of them. They were a fight waiting to happen. Malevolence glinted in their looks and their pretend smiles had no mirth. But he knew their kind. Most of them were cowards and wouldn’t hurt Cassandra or Johnny in such a public place. It’d garner too much attention and they wouldn’t want that. They usually waited until they could get the humans alone somewhere to do their damage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">An omen of things to come, thunder rippled through the sultry air and eerily mimicked the resonance of human screams. Manasseh shifted uncomfortably in his chair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">Still there was no sign of the demon, Rayner. Perhaps he wouldn’t show, though there was enough danger lurking in the crowd without him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">Manasseh listened to Cassandra and her brother. Choir music was more his style, yet their voices were harmonious and their instrument playing skillful. There was an innocent goodness in their demeanors and the messages of their songs that made their performance compelling. And behind the melodies, their souls were luminous and shone like beacons from their eyes. Both of them were pure of heart and strong, the brother not quite as much as the sister, and would need to be because the future wouldn’t be easy for either of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">An hour went by. The songs and sibling banter were entertaining. People drank, conversed, and socialized. Rayner never showed up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">The demons behaved themselves as much as they were able, hiding their impatience behind their smirks. No doubt they were planning something wicked for after they left the bar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">He was about to see to Obadiah, when one of the demons behind him threw a bottle at Cassandra. She ducked before it made contact and smashed into the wall. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">Another demon flung one and hit Johnny in the head…and the brawl was on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">Everyone shoved and kicked each other. Fists and flesh collided. The demons had instigated the clash and notched it up and that alarmed Manasseh. Though it was in their nature to cause pandemonium wherever and whenever they could, they were usually less obvious about it. Another bad sign. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">The room was an erupting volcano and people spilled into the stormy night to escape the flying glasses and bottles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">Crouched down behind the bar, Maggie shouted into the phone: “Morey, you better get over here quick. There’s a big fight and everything’s being busted to hell. I’ll try to call the police–” The phone obviously went dead in her hands. “Damn!” She dropped it and ran out the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">Someone threw a table through a window and wind and rain splattered in. Everyone was screaming, slugging each other, or trying to escape through a door or window.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">One of the demons hurled itself at the two singers as if it wanted to tear them apart. Cassandra nimbly stepped aside and the fiend overshot and ended up beneath a table scrabbling to keep from being booted by a bunch of furious cowboys.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">Amidst the chaos, Cassandra shoved her wounded brother towards the back exit, their guitars protectively cradled in their arms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">Manasseh followed them into the alley. He’d shield them if he had to. But Cassandra knew what to do. Survival was an instinct she’d been born with. Through the falling water, she aimed her brother towards her car and they scrambled in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-font-kerning: 24.0pt;">The sound of police sirens rivaled the thunder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Evil Stalks the Night</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> (Leisure, 1984; Damnation Books, 2012)</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">The Nameless One</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> (short story in 1993 Zebra Anthology <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dark Seductions</i></b>; Damnation Books Author’s Revised Edition, 2011) </span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Damnation Books Buy Link:</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> </span></strong><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><a href="http://damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615723201"><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615723201</span></strong></a></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">The Calling</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> (Zebra, 1994; Damnation Books Author’s Revised Edition, 2011) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jeanne Guzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903215892523274978noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090073126758229616.post-88534710526014575502012-10-08T08:07:00.000-07:002012-10-08T08:07:19.752-07:00Why I Wrote Evil Stalks the Night with guest Kathryn Meyer Griffith<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 31.5pt;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Evil Stalks the Night</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">-<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Revised Author’s Edition</i> is special to me for many reasons. It was my first published novel in 1984 and as it comes out again on June 1, 2012, rereleased from Damnation Books for the first time in nearly thirty years, it’ll bring my over forty year writing career <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">full circle</i>. With its publication <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all</i> fourteen, and one novella, of my old books will be out again for the first time in decades. Sure, it’s been a grueling, tedious two-and- a-half year job rewriting and editing these new versions but I’m thrilled it’s over. I have my babies reborn and out in the world again…and all in e books for the first time ever. Now, perfectionist that I am, I can finally move forward and write new stories. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">That first book was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Heart of the Rose.</b> I began writing it after my only child, James, was born in late 1971. I was staying home with him, no longer going to college, not yet working full time, and was bored out of my skin. I read an historical romance one day I believed was horrible and thought <i>I can do better than that!</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">So I got out my borrowed typewriter with the keys that stuck, my bottles of White-Out, carbon paper for copies, and started clicking away. I’d tentatively called that first book <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">King’s Witch</b> because it was about a 15<sup>th</sup> century healer who was falsely believed to be a witch but who was loved by Edward the Fourth. At the library, no computers or Internet back then, I did tedious research into that time in English history: the War of the Roses, the poverty, the civil and political strife between the Red (Lancasters) and White Rose (Yorks); the infamous Earl of Warwick and Edward the Fourth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Edward’s brother Richard the Third.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A real saga. Well, all that was big back then. I was way out of my league, though. Didn’t know what the heck I was doing. I just wrote page after page, emotions high believing I could create a whole book. So naïve of me. Reading that old version now (a 1985 Leisure Books paperback) I have to laugh. Ironically, like that historical novel I’d thought in 1971 was so bad, it was pretty awful. That archaic language I’d used–all the rage back in the 80’s–sounds so stilted now. Yikes! Yet people, mainly women, had loved it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">And so my writing career began. Over 40 years ago now. Oh my goodness, where has the time gone? Flown away like some wild bird. It took me 12 years to get that first book published as I got sidetracked with a divorce, raising a son, getting a real job and finding the true love of my life and marrying him. Life, as it always seemed to do and still does, got in the way. The manuscript was tossed into a drawer and forgotten for a time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Then years later I rediscovered it and decided to rewrite it; try again. I bundled up the revised pile of printed copy pages, tucked it into an empty copy paper box and took it to the Post Office. Plastered it with stamps. I sent it everywhere The Writer’s Market of that year said I could. And waited. Months and months and months. In those days it could take up to a year or more to sell a novel, shipping it here and there to publishers, in between revising and rewriting to please any editor that’d make suggestions or comments on how it could be better. Snail mail took forever, too, and was expensive. But eventually, as you shall see, it sold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Now to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Evil Stalks the Night.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In the meantime, as I waited for the mail, I’d written another book. Kind of a fictionalized look back at my childhood in a large (6 brothers and sisters) poor but loving family in the 1950’s and 60’s. Called it <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">707 Suncrest</b>. I started sending that one out as well. Then one day an editor <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">suggested</i> that since my writing had such a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">spooky</i> ambiance to it anyway, why didn’t I just turn the story into a horror novel…like Stephen King was doing? Ordinary people under supernatural circumstances. A book like that would sell easily, she said. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Hmmm. Well, it was worth a try, so I added something scary in the woods in the main character’s childhood past that she had to return to and face in her adult life, using some of my childhood and my young adult life–my heartbreaking divorce, raising my young son alone, my new love–as hers. It was more of a romantic horror when I’d finished, than a horror novel. I retitled it <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Evil Stalks the Night</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> and began sending it out</span>. That editor was right, it sold quickly to a mass market paperback publisher called Towers Publishing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">But right in the middle of editing Towers went bankrupt and was bought out by another publisher! What terrible luck, I remember brooding. The book was lost somewhere in the stacks of unedited slush in a company undergoing massive changes as the new publisher took over. I had a contract, didn’t know what to do and didn’t know how to break it. Heaven knows, I couldn’t afford a lawyer. My life with a new husband, my son and (at first) my minimum-wage assistant billing job and then my entry level one as a graphic artist a few years later, were one step above poverty at times. In those days, too, I was so clueless how to deal with the publishing industry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">That was 1983, but luckily that take-over publisher was Leisure Books, now also known as Dorchester Publishing. A publisher that quickly became huge. Talk about karma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">As often as has happened to me over my writing career, though, fate stepped in and the Tower’s editor, before she left, who’d bought my book told one of Leisure’s editors about it and asked her to give it a read. She believed in it that much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Out of the blue, in 1984, when I’d completely given up on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Evil Stalks the Night</span></b>, Leisure Books sent me a letter offering to buy it<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">! Then, miracle of miracles, my new editor asked if I had any other ideas or books she could look at. I sent her </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Heart of the Rose</b> and, liking it, too, she also bought it in 1985; asking me to sex it up some, so they could release it as an historical bodice-ripper (remember those…the sexy knockoffs of Rosemary Rogers and Kathleen Woodiwiss’s provocative novels?). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn’t a lot of money. A thousand dollar advance each and only 4% royalties on the paperbacks. But in those days the publishers had a huge distribution and thousands and thousands of the paperbacks were printed, sent to bookstores and warehoused. So 4% of all those books over the next couple of years did add up. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Thus my career began. I slowly, and like-pulling-teeth, sold ten more novels and various short stories over the next 25 years–as I was working full time, raising a family and living my hard-scramble life. Some did well, my Leisure and Zebra paperbacks, and some didn’t. Most of them, over the years, eventually went out of print. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">And </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">twenty-seven years later, when publisher Kim Richards Gilchrist at Damnation Books contracted my 13<sup>th</sup> and 14<sup>th</sup> novels, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">BEFORE THE END: A Time of Demons, </b>an apocalyptic end-of-days-novel<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">,</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Woman in Crimson</b>, a vampire book, she asked if I’d like to rerelease (with new covers and rewritten, of course–and all in ebooks for the first time ever) my 7 out-of-print paperbacks, including </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Evil Stalks the Night</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">–I gave her a resounding <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">yes!</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Of course, I had to totally rewrite </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Evil Stalks the Night</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">for the resurrected edition, as well as my other early novels, because I discovered </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">my writing when I was twenty-something had been immature and unpolished; and not having a computer and the Internet had made the original writing so much harder. Also in those days, editors told an author what to change and the writer only saw the manuscript once to final proof it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were so many mistakes in those early books. Typos. Grammar. Lost plot and detail threads. In the rewrite I also decided to keep the time frame (1960-1984) the same. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book’s essence would have lost too much if I’d updated it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">As I finished the final editing I couldn’t help but reminisce about all the life changes I’ve had since I’d first began writing it so many years ago. Though it was actually published in 1984, I’d started writing it many years before; closer to 1978 or 1979. I’m as old as my Grandmother Fehrt, my mother’s mother and who the grandmother in the story was loosely based on, was back then. While I was first writing it so long ago, I was a young married woman with a small child holding down my first real job and trying to do it all. Now…my grandmother, mother and father have all passed to the other side. Many other family and friends I’ve left behind, too. I miss them all, especially my mom and dad. It’s strange how revising my old books reminded me of certain times of my life. Some of the memories I hid from and some of them made me laugh or cry. This book, though, is the most autobiographical of all my novels as it contains details of my childhood, my devastating divorce, and what my life was like when I first met my second husband, Russell, who’s turned out to be my true love. We’ve been happily married for thirty-four years and counting. Ah, but how quickly the years have clicked by. Too quickly. I want to reach out, often, and stop time. I want more. I have so much more life to live and many more stories to write. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">So <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Evil Stalks the Night</b>-<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Revised Author’s Edition</i> (<span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://damnationbooks.com/people.php?author=79"><span style="color: #336699;">http://damnationbooks.com/people.php?author=79</span></a> </span>) republished by Damnation Books/Eternal Press will be out again for the first time in nearly thirty years on June 1, 2012, and I hope it’s a better book than it was in 1984. It should be…I’ve had over thirty more years of life and experiences to help make it so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Written this 1<sup>st</sup> day of June, 2012 by the author Kathryn Meyer Griffith </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Evil Stalks the Night</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> (Leisure, 1984; Damnation Books, 2012)</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The Complete Guide to Writing Paranormal Fiction</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">: <em><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Volume 1</span></em> (I did the Introduction) </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">The Story of</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Last Vampire<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Author’s Revised Edition </span></i><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">by<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Kathryn Meyer Griffith<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">A rerelease of my 1992 Zebra end-of-the-world vampire novel <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">…and was a </span></i>2012 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS FINALIST for horror<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The story of how I came to write, publish and rerelease my end-of-the-world vampire love story <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Last Vampire</b>-<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Revised Author’s Edition</i> again twenty years after its initial release is a long strange tale. What’s new, though? Looking back over my forty year writing career most of the origins and journeys of my fourteen published novels are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all</i> pretty strange. Ask any author who published in the 1980’s to now and you’d get a lot of the same bizarre accounts. Publishing back then–and now–was not for the faint of heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">In the beginning, as all authors had to do before the ebook publishers and the Internet, I dealt with the old legacy (traditional publishers) the slow-frustrating-time consuming old-fashioned way through snail mail, editors and agents. Sometimes between the writing, scouring for a publisher, getting a contract with that publisher, getting the manuscript ready to go on the book shelves and what you had to put up with during and afterwards could be enough to drive any sane writer crazy. I mean…it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all</i> took so long. So tedious and soul-killing at times. Oh, the stories I could tell. Well, but not here anyway. This is the story of one book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">I started writing <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Last Vampire</b>, oh, I guess, around 1990 or so. With the help of Dean Koontz (I sent him a letter asking for advice on how to get a better publishing company and deal and he and his wife, who did the actual talking though Dean must have been nearby by the way the conversation went, answered by kindly telephoning me one rainy fall night) I’d gotten my first agent in 1990. She’d already sold my fourth book, Vampire Blood, to my new publisher Zebra and I had begun work on my fifth novel, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Last Vampire</b>. I know, I know. Another vampire novel? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">But as I began writing it I realized it wasn’t going to be just another vampire novel. This book would be a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">saga</i> about the end-of-the-world, about personal courage, the destruction and fall of society and about what humans–and vampires–would have to do to survive in the new merciless world after earthquakes and anarchy had taken their tolls. I wanted to transcend the vampire novel genre. Or, at least, try to. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">I even threw in a little inside joke on the other top horror writers of the day by using their names for the other bloodsuckers in the ruthless vampire gang my main character goes to war against. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stephen. Dean. Anne. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Chelsea</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">. Peter. And so on. Hmm, though, no one ever got the joke…or never told me if they did. Oh, well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">I’ll admit it now because it’s so many years later, I’d also used the book as a sort of therapy to deal with an increasingly frustrating situation I was experiencing in my real life at work. Age discrimination. My new art director thought I was too old, I was forty-two at the time, to be a senior graphic artist, didn’t have but a two year college degree instead of four (but I’d been doing the actual job 13 years!), and had been making my life on the job miserable. He’d openly demoted me; was overworking me. Besides my regular workload, he put a couple younger artists over me who bossed me around. I spent half my day doing their copying duties and being their gofer. One of the artists, a woman, was openly condescending and cruel to me. So humiliating. I guess I got even by writing about it (imagine, my main character was a graphic artist, or used to be before the world fell apart) and killing the art director off in the book; then, for good measure, destroying the whole city of St. Louis (where I worked), the Arch, splitting the Mississippi River and decimating the Poplar Street Bridge as well. What fun I had! It was great therapy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Well, between working full time as a graphic designer, raising a son, keeping a husband happy, and being there for my large family I struggled to finish writing <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Last Vampire</b>. Got it done and Zebra paperbacks brought it out in 1992 with little fanfare. I’d had the usual over-worked disinterested editor. I had to fight hard for the integrity of every word. And I hated the cover. A kneeling woman (supposedly my main character vampiress) in a blindingly white snowy background. So bland. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">I thought it was the best thing I’d ever written. I truly believed in it and its story. It was my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">baby</i> and I hopefully shoved it out into the world and…nothing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">It was long before the Internet, emails, blogs, web review sites, and editing on the computer. I didn’t know how to promote. Was too busy living my life. I left that up to my publisher. That’s what an author did in those days. Apparently, they didn’t know how to either. I never got one review that I knew of and never <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">any</i> feedback besides the dismal royalty statements…which never made any sense to me anyway. What in the heck were those huge amounts taken out for returns anyway? The book didn’t sell well, they said. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Too bad. So sad. Go on and write another one. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Which I did. Witches. Came out in 1993 and did very well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Over the next twenty years I went on to write and publish nine more books, seven short stories and a novella. The seven oldest of them went out of print. Then in 2010 Kim Richards at Damnation Books/Eternal Press contracted two of my newest horror novels and asked if she could reprint, with new covers and all in ebooks for the first time ever, revised editions of all my older novels. I said a resounding <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">yes! </i>and now all of them will be out again for a new generation to read and hopefully enjoy by June 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">And <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Last Vampire</b>-<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Revised Author’s Edition</i>? It’s finally come into its own after all these long years. Most of the reviews have been glowing. People seem to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">get</i> it, love it and it was even a FINALIST for a 2012 EPIC EBOOK AWARD in the horror category. I didn’t win the final award, but being nominated one of the top three was honor enough for me. I’m humbled, vindicated, thrilled. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">And so plays out the rollercoaster life of a writer. Never lose hope. Never give up. And never stop writing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Bookman Old Style';">Since childhood I’ve always been an artist and worked as a graphic designer in the corporate world and for newspapers for twenty-three years before I quit to write full time. I began writing novels at 21, over forty years ago now, and have had sixteen (</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">eleven romantic horror, one historical romance, one romantic suspense, one romantic time travel and two murder mysteries</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Bookman Old Style';">) previous novels and eight short stories published</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"> from Zebra Books, Leisure Books, Avalon Books, The Wild Rose Press, Damnation Books and Eternal Press</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Bookman Old Style';">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Bookman Old Style';">I’ve been married to Russell for thirty-four years; have a son, James, and two grandchildren, Joshua and Caitlyn, and I live in a small quaint town in Illinois called Columbia, which is right across the JB Bridge from St. Louis, Mo. We have three quirky cats, ghost cat Sasha, live cats Cleo and Sasha (Too), and the five of us live happily in an old house in the heart of town. Though I’ve been an artist, and a folk singer in my youth with my brother Jim, writing has always been my greatest passion, my butterfly stage, and I’ll probably write stories until the day I die…or until my memory goes.***<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">The Nameless One</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> (short story in 1993 Zebra Anthology <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dark Seductions</i></b>; Damnation Books Author’s Revised Edition, 2011) </span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Damnation Books Buy Link:</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> </span></strong><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><a href="http://damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615723201"><strong><span style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">http://damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=<span style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">9781615723201</span></span></span></strong></a></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">The Calling</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> (Zebra, 1994; Damnation Books Author’s Revised Edition, 2011) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">All Things Slip Away </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">(Avalon Books Murder Mystery, 2006…soon an Amazon Kindle Direct ebook) </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Winter’s Journey</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> (The Wild Rose Press, 2008; Author’s Revised Edition, Eternal Press 2011) </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Eternal Press Buy Link: <a href="http://www.eternalpress.biz/book.php?isbn=9781615724604"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #336699;">http://www.eternalpress.biz/book.php?isbn=9781615724604</span></span></a>) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">The Ice Bridge</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> (The Wild Rose Press, 2008; Author’s Revised Edition, Eternal Press 2011) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Don’t Look Back, Agnes </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">novella & bonus short story:<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> In This House</b> (2008; ghostly romantic short story out; Eternal Press 2012)</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">The Woman in Crimson</span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> (Damnation Books 2010) </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The Complete Guide to Writing Paranormal Fiction</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">: <em><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Volume 1</span></em> (I did the Introduction) </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jeanne Guzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903215892523274978noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090073126758229616.post-64510222723243305262012-09-24T08:04:00.000-07:002012-09-24T08:04:54.720-07:00Don't Look Back, Agnes! A Backstory with Author Kathryn Meyer Griffith<div align="center" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">The Story Behind <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Don't Look Back, Agnes</b> </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">and</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">In This House</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16pt;">By Kathryn Meyer Griffith<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The older I get, the more I like to reminisce and write about what I’m going through at any particular time. I guess it’s an age thing. So many of my stories and novels come about because of what I’m actually experiencing in my real life. Not all, but some. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">But my novella, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Don't Look Back, Agnes</b> is definitely one such story. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">At the end of 1998 my beloved father, the very heart (along with my mother’s mother, Grandmother Fehrt, who was also much loved) of my large family, passed away after a short but heartbreaking battle with lung cancer. He’d been a cigarette smoker his whole life so it wasn’t a complete shock that it ended up killing him. Yet the suddenness and the swiftness of his departure devastated my six siblings, my mother, grandmother, and me. It was a very dark time for us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">To complicate the matter, my brothers and sisters, myself included, were in our forties and working hard at our lives, our families and jobs, but my grandmother and mother were left living alone together and neither one drove; so both needed constant care and attention. My grandmother was in her eighties and my mother in her late sixties; though my grandmother was fairly healthy (she was spunky lady, with a zest for life, who’d emigrated from Austria as a child) my mother was already in a wheelchair, crippled from bad ankle surgeries, debilitating osteoarthritis and a host of heart related problems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The first thing the family had to do was move them into town, nearer to some of us, and out of the country where they’d been living in the new sprawling house my father had built them just the year before. It was too hard caring for them way out there and the house was too big, too expensive. Boy, that was fun. They had so much stuff, so many memories to dispose of and cry over. We settled them in a small ranch house in town and life went on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or tried to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Now, I loved my mother and grandmother dearly but taking care of them was often difficult. Each needed concentrated care, love, endless visits to the doctor, prescriptions filled and, as time went on, housekeeping and grocery shopping help–and finally, someone to do their bills, my mother becoming too disoriented and sick to any longer do any of those chores. For a long time, years, my grandmother stepped up, even at her age, and became my mother’s constant nurse and helper. Their two Social Security checks combined were just enough for them to live on. It was a thin line they had to tread and we tried to help them every step of the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">So, with love, sometimes desperation, and some bickering every so often between us siblings as to who would do what when, we took care of them and their whole household, their house. There were many late night runs to hospital emergency rooms, or long stays, and rehab centers for my mother, who steadily over the next nine years grew worse. By the end of 2005 it seemed we were always at the hospital with mom or grandma. My mom had her heart troubles, high blood pressure and medication problems, and my grandmother broke her hip. One thing after another. It was exhausting at times. Who’d ever think two sick old ladies could need so much care?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Then my grandmother got really ill and was rushed to the hospital. She needed emergency surgery and afterwards was in intensive care for a month…never recovered…then sadly joined our grandfather in the next life. We were all so broken hearted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">That left our mother, all alone, without enough money to live on (her Social Security meager; no savings), and unable to care for herself or her three cats. Born an only child, she was a demanding sort of woman, almost childlike in her unending need for attention and devotion. She was terrified of going to a nursing home so the family did what we could to keep her in her own home as long as possible. My brother got her a reverse mortgage on her house and we all chipped in financially whenever and however we could. We fought the good fight but there came a day where mom got so sick, was rushed to the hospital so often, needed so much constant supervision, couldn’t get out of bed and some of us couldn’t lift her, that my siblings and I had to admit defeat…mom had to go into a nursing home or one of us had to move in with her, which wasn’t feasible. We were married with families and mom needed too much nursing care. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">So a nursing home it was. We picked out a newly opened one in town, the nicest we could find, and the next time mom got sick we moved her into it for her recovery. Then told her the truth. The house was up for sale and the cats had been placed in new homes. I even took one, Patches (the cat in the story), because it was old and no one wanted her. My husband and I already had two cats but it was something I had to do…for mom. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She really loved that cat as she’d really loved her home. But poor Patches, probably pining for her mistress and her old life, only lasted five months. I lied to my mother for months afterwards, afraid to tell her that the old cat had died (mom had always said that when Patches died, she’d die) and it tore me apart when I finally had to tell her. Mom had come to our house for a family Thanksgiving and I couldn’t hide the fact that Patches wasn’t there. Oh, that was hard. Telling her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">If anyone has ever put a parent or relative into a nursing home, they know the heartbreak it causes all around. My mother was inconsolable and my guilt was awful. But, as sick as mom had become, with so many prescriptions each day, hospital visits, and how most days she couldn’t even get out of bed or get to the bathroom, clean or feed herself…we had no choice. She stayed in that nursing home – although it was a bright cheery place with kind people running it – until she died two years later. The hardest two years of my life. I visited her often, shopped for her and kept her company. Decorated her room so it looked like a home. Brought her special lunches and little gifts. Fancy quilts and stuffed cats. It still broke my heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">I began writing the novella, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Don’t Look Back, Agnes</b>,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>while she was there. A ghost story centered around a young woman who’s forced by grim circumstances into returning to her haunted, and deadly, childhood home because her mother is ill in a nursing home and needs her. Looking back now, I can see it was also my way of dealing with the nursing home guilt…of wishing for a different ending to mom’s life than what had occurred. Writing the story was my therapy. I cried all my sorrow out into those words and prayed to be forgiven for putting my mother into such a place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Even <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In This House</i></b>, the bonus short story included because it’s also a ghostly tale, deals with old age and the passing of all a person (or a couple in this instance) ever knew or loved as time and their lives slip away, as it must always do. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the same time I was writing the Agnes story I read an article in the newspaper about this old man who was the last resident of a neighborhood that had been systematically bought out and emptied by an iron smelter plant. He was the last one living there in the last house. He spoke of his loneliness since his wife had died; about her. Their past. It sparked the idea for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In This House</i></b>. Both stories deal with responsibility, sacrifice and…love. Love for a mate, for an aging parent, children, and a way of life or the loss of one’s independence that we all in the end have to relinquish in one way or another. Life’s sorrows faced with a brave smile to cover the tears. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">I hope the two stories help anyone going through what I was going through in those difficult years. If they do, then the words have done their job. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Written by the author Kathryn Meyer Griffith this nineteenth day of December 2011<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">A writer for 40 years I’ve had 16 novels, 1 novella and 8 short stories published with Zebra Books, Leisure Books, Avalon Books, the Wild Rose Press, Damnation Books and Eternal Press since 1984. And my </span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">romantic end-of-the-world horror novel <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE LAST VAMPIRE</b>-<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Revised Author's Edition</i> was a 2012 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS FINALIST NOMINEE.</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Jeanne Guzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12903215892523274978noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090073126758229616.post-4138106859587161712012-09-14T10:49:00.000-07:002012-09-14T14:02:27.079-07:00Magic and more with multi-published author Evelyn Byrne<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Welcome Evelyn to Romance In Flight. Thank you so much for coming to visit. Why don’t we start with you telling us a little about yourself? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I was born in Dublin, Ireland and moved to the states when I was two. I grew up in Chicago, lived in Tucson, Arizona for about eight years, and for the last eighteen years, I have been living in Texas. I used to travel back to Ireland at least once a year; so when I started writing about ten years ago, I naturally gravitated toward Irish Mythology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sometimes I would get so engrossed in a good book that I would dream their endings before I fished reading them. My endings of course were not the same as the ending the writer actually wrote. At some point it became a game to me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then I began to dream stories of my own. One day I was driving back from Chicago to Gilmer I had to pull over because the beginning of a story was so strong I had to write it down. That night I typed it into the computer and labeled it SOMEDAY (I figured someday I might take it out and finish it.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Three years later, I had a dream, and that morning, I pulled out SOMEDAY, changed the name to THE MAGIC FROM WITHIN, and started writing. Six months later, I finished it. It won first and third place over the next two years. The name changed once again to UNKNOWN MAGIC when it was published. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Since then I have written two more books in the series, Stolen Magic and Lost Magic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You’re current book, The Cabin-Episode Two, came out in May, and I have to say, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Very intriguing</i>. What’s next for you? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yes currently I am writing a series call THE CABIN. The first episode came out on Kindle in May, the second in June, the third in July, and the fourth in August. Episode five will be out the end of this month and will continue each month until the story is finished. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am also working on book four of the Daughter of Prophecy Series, COVETED MAGIC, which should be out sometime early next year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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